Draft:Death and state funeral of Deng Xiaoping



Death and state funeral of Deng Xiaoping
Date
  • 19 February 1997, at 21:08 (BJT)
  • (death)
  • 24 February 1997
  • (cremation)
  • 25 February 1997
  • (state funeral)
LocationBeijing
ParticipantsJiang Zemin, party and state leaders, members of the Chinese Communist Party, Chinese military and civilians
External videos
video icon Official Announcement on state broadcaster CCTV

Deng Xiaoping, the Chairman of the Central Military Commission of China from 1981 to 1989, died on 19 February 1997, at the age of 92, in Beijing. According to Xinhua News Agency, he died at 21:08 local time, from late stage Parkinson's disease complicated by pulmonary infection. Following a private funeral at PLA General Hospital and cremation at Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery, a state funeral for Deng was held at the Great Hall of the People on 25 February 1997. It was the first major state funeral held in China since 1976 when Mao Zedong died.


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